CinemaOSMovie · 1973 · 0h 52m

Outlaw-Matsu Comes Home

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“In Search of Unreturned Soldiers was about former soldiers of the Japanese army who chose not to return to Japan after the war. I found several of them who had remained in Thailand. Two years later, I invited one of them to make his first return visit to Japan and documented it in Outlaw-Matsu Returns Home. During the filming, my subject Fujita asked me to buy him a cleaver so that he could kill his ‘vicious brother.’ I was shocked, and asked him to wait a day so that I could plan how to film the scene. By the next morning, to my relief, Fujita had calmed down and changed his mind about killing his brother. But I couldn’t have had a sharper insight into the ethical questions provoked by this kind of documentary filmmaking.” —Shôhei Imamura

Directed byShōhei Imamura

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Status
Released
Runtime
0h 52m
Language
JA
Released
January 1, 1973

Featuring

Cast & crew

1 credited
Starring
Shōhei Imamura

Shōhei Imamura

Himself

Creative team
Directed by
Shōhei Imamura
Shōhei Imamura
Produced by
Matsuo Takahashi

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